Democratic Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs on Friday issued an order to protect abortion rights, wielding her executive power to curtail the effects of a restrictive abortion law signed by her Republican predecessor.
Hobbs said on Twitter she ordered all abortion-related prosecutions centralized under the office of Attorney General Kristin Mays, also a Democrat and abortion rights advocate, stripping that authority from county prosecutors, many of them Republicans.
The executive orders were issued on the eve of the anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling overturning the right to an abortion. In March 2022, in anticipation of the Supreme Court ruling, Arizona's Republican governor at the time, Doug Ducey, signed a bill banning abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. The measure made exceptions for medical emergencies, but not for rape.
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